Albert Brooks Quotes
It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.
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Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
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Broadway is amazing because you're performing for such an intimate group of people. You're living in the moment and whatever happens happens, and you go on. You can't say cut and redo it, you have to be on the whole time.
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Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.
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We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.
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It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
